Creek Wood football is taking the opportunity of the first week of practice to work on conditioning.

Not to say the Red Hawks are getting away from working on formations and schemes, but at this time, the objective is to get back into shape after the layoff.

“What we’re doing is we don’t want to get away from our workout regiment. We feel like at this time, conditioning is huge for us,” said Creek Wood coach Houston Thiel.

“When we come back from our two weeks off, we want to make sure we’re still in a workout routine. We want to test them a bit, and see where they’re at. What we’ve been doing is dividing up into two sessions. We’ll do a 45-minute workout, take some time off, go to the field, and work on some things.”

The Red Hawks are a plethora of drills, including box jumps, tire flips, using the track and field sand pit for agility exercises, and power ropes.

The final 45 minutes is dedicated to implementing plays, which Thiel is concerned about. However, the first-year coach still wants to focus on his team’s conditioning.

“We’re definitely talking about that stuff and working on it. It’s just important to us to test that conditioning. Not having a ton of numbers, we’re going to ask a bunch of guys to go both ways. That’s how we’re looking at it,” said Thiel.

The Red Hawks will partake in a couple of 7-on-7 tournaments. The first will be on Saturday in Gallatin, and another Monday in Houston County.

Reach Andy Simmons by email jasimmons@gannett.com or on Twitter @AndyDHTN